Gosh what a busy and hectic week. Been rushing everywhere in school and outside school just to be in time for all the stuff that I need to do.

Earth Week is over! We took down the exhibition boards and cleared away the can tabs at the Atrium, then we stock-checked the SPCA merchandise to make sure the sums tally, and we counted can tabs as well! AERIUS WON!! Aerius had 9000++ can tabs, which was 4000 more than the next nearest house! YAY. In one way or another I felt glad that Earth Week is over, because that means handover to juniors is coming soon!

Friday youth service was kinda cranky. "For All You've Done" is my I'm-sick-of-that-song for the month. Biru led it first at the start of April, then I sang it during Good Friday, and Lurong sang it again on Friday. I had a hard time with the song's stress patterns and rhythm when we were rehearsing for Good Friday, so naturally I'll develop adverse reactions resulting from a song that is sung 3 times in a month.

NAPFA yesterday. I clocked 12.27 minutes for 2.4km cos I'm so stupidly unfit. And at best I could only jump 210cm for standing broad jump, and the requirement for silver is 220cm. UGH. My right arm is still suffering from the "injury" to my blood vessels when they took blood from me for the medical checkup, so when I did my pull-ups I think I aggravated my capillaries or something. I've got a big patch of bruise on my arm now.

Loads of homework to be done. And just when I thought Earth Week is over, here comes the nature postcards that Mrs Cheng wants for College Day. Oh what fun.

Just came back from my NS medical checkup at Central Manpower Base. Much like your basic checkup, just testing your eyes and ears and getting your heart rates and blood pressure. And they took some of my blood to determine my blood type. Haha yesh like finally!! I never ever knew what my blood type was cos I never ever went for any blood test at all in my life. But anyway, I'm certified healthy except for my drug allergy to Paracetamol.

Then after the entire checkup, had to do this hour-long test on your mathematical and physics skills. It's those kind of maths that primary kids will do, something like what Hai Hao might be doing now. And they made us to patterns recognition and visualisation and even PHYSICS. Oh crap whatever that Ms Foo taught me in secondary physics was lost, cos it's over more than a year ago that I touched that stuff.

My right arm's numb. They prick my middle finger on my right hand, then drew blood out for the blood test 2 minutes later. Nah it wasn't painful, but it sure is morbid seeing your own blood flowing out into a syringe.

Rachel Tan just called me on my phone to rattle nonsense. What a strange girl.

Just 48 hours of not checking my mail, and I get 53 spam and 19 emails. I shall accumulate 1000 spam within a month!





And my "guess the number of can tabs" poster. Took me 45 minutes.

Still sleep-deprived, but at least I'm making gradual improvements in the number of hours that I sleep daily. Except Sunday night/Monday morning when I slept for an hour only (it was the eve of Earth Week launch.)

Yep Earth Week launch. I had quite a nervous breakdown on Sunday night. Started imagining about bad stuff happening, things going wrong etc. And I couldn't fall asleep, so I went to do my Maths remedial questions instead, and it was at least 4.3oam before I went to bed, then woke up at 5.30am to rush to school by 6.30am.

Guess what? I had a bad diarrhoea the moment I reached school, so I stayed in the toilet for 15 minutes tossing the cookies. And when I was finally out of the toilet, it was a frantic rush to get the exhibition boards up and ready by morning assembly. Started rearranging the boards and aligning the can tabs to the letters EARTH WEEK on the floor.

Then the bad news came. Jun Ying was caught in the traffic, then Liyong had diarrhoea too, so he wasn't planning to come to school. THERE GOES OUR LEAD ACTOR FOR OUR PUBLICITY STUNT. Then me and Rongyao were trying to push the responsibility among us as to who should be the replacement actor, and I sort of volunteered "for the good of the club". Whatever.

Basically the storyline for the pubstunt was Flowerboy and Flowergirl (Wang Mo) being in love with each other, but they are unable to move towards each other because they are rooted to the ground. So enters the Butterfly (Hong Yi) who pollinates the two of them before the NJCian (Guan Zhi) came in and destroyed the flowers. The NJCian is supposed to represent man's destructive actions on the environment.

Me and Wang Mo had a last minute discussion about how we should act out the love scenes betwen the Flowers, like how to blow kisses and be in love. HAHA. Wang Mo's quite a good Art & Pub member, considering how deeply in love we are... I had to familiarise myself with the script within half an hour, and still have to make sure that everything's going okay with the exhibitions and the tree-planting later. UGH.

The actual pubstunt was quite nerve wrecking! Could hear people laughing and could hear Christine (A02's Christine) shouting "Go Guan You!" from the assembly square. Then me and Wang Mo blew kisses at each other and got pollinated by Hong Yi and then off we came from the stage, then I had to take off my flower petals to present the Lotus award to the Principal.

Then it was tree-planting ceremony right after that! My whole morning was basically jam-packed for 2 hours straight. Mrs Cheng dirtied her hands to plant the hydrangea, and she even stopped the band members passing by to ask them to play something. HAHA!! Then the rest of the day I was running about settling various stuff like the Nature Society's merchandise and the exhibitions and nature walk.

It was tiring, especially with an hour of sleep the night before. But I've got a wonderful EXCO and the juniors were equally fantastic as well! Without them I think we couldn't have managed such a smooth opening. In schedule are movie screening, nature walks in the college, and SPCA merchandise coming down soon.

I'm tired. TIRED TIRED TIRED. But I'm quite happy also, cos once Earth Week is over, we're going to handover our Green Link portfolios to the juniors. YAY. And my fellowship committee is going to be taken after by Joel. LALALA.

I think I appreciate Ms Ting abit better now. We had 2 lectures with her today, and for the first time ever, her insinuations didn't have that much weight in them as they normally would. Okay maybe it's just me only, but she was really in a much better mood today. And I could follow her lesson on urban climate! In return I helped her staple the set of notes to be distributed so she wouldn't have to waste time. I'M A GOOD GEOGRAPHY REP.

Went for ice cream at Island Creamery with Yurong again yesterday. It started pouring just as we were about to leave, so we went to Macs to eat fries and wasted time waiting for the rain to stop. But still we ended up walking in the rain to the bus-stop far far away. Island Creamery should consider building a bus-stop just outside their shop.

Tomorrow is NS medical checkup.

Spent the whole of yesterday at school with my Green Link exco and juniors. Was busy preparing all the exhibition displays, pubstunt, and all miscelleanous stuff for Earth Week. Had to take a taxi to school at 9am cos I had two huge boxes of can tabs to carry, then was basically busy preparing all the exhibition displays, pubstunt, and all miscelleanous stuff for Earth Week. Didn't get to leave school till 4pm, and that was a mad hell of rushing cos the school gates closes at 4.15pm.

It reminded me of last year's Earth Week preparations. Gosh whatever happpened yesterday was almost similar to last year. IP preview was going on at the same time when we were preparing the exhibitions. Slacked the morning away watching Hui Min's Taiwan immersion videos (last year I was slacking with Lynn). Cutting and pasting (last year I was cutting and pasting with Pei Ling and Lynn). Pubstunt rehearsal, but this year I'm not involved (last year I was the narrator). Ms Koh treated us to drinks (last year it was ice cream). Frantic rush to set up the boards.

Just finished my part of the Mediterranean biome presentation. Rhoda ran away to Italy and dumped me and Kai Jie with the presentation to complete. And now I need to complete my Maths remedial assignment.

Oh the choir got GOLD by the way. Must be the Italian gelato ice cream. CONGRATS!

Hong Yi says I'm "morose" these few days. I denied it at first, but now as I think about it, yeah I guess that would be a perfect word to describe me now. Lack of sleep, grumpy, gruffy, snappish, irritable, sour temper, moody, tired, whiny, inactive.

Sometimes I think some people just have no initiative. If I put you in charge of stuff to complete, do them. Don't bother me with your troubles, because you're in charge of it and you should take care of it.

Yar I'm in a lousy mood now. Tonnes of work to do but very little time. And I keep chalking sleep debts that just accumulate and debilitates my health.

Earth Week launch tomorrow.

I think I got into trouble with several people over the course of the past 2 weeks. People displeased with the way I do things, people picking unreasonable fights because I did not do certain things. Well, all I can say is nobody had better come bitching to me about whatever there is to bitch about. Frankly speaking, I don't give a damn who you are.

UGH. Just stay out of my way and leave me alone.

OH CRABBY CRAP.

I lost like a million things this week. First I lost my EZ-Link card on the bus. Then I lost my folder which contained my completed Maths tutorials and some Literature stuff. And I lost one huge tin of can tabs cos I can't remember where I put it. I lost a pen at Catholic High, and I lost a paper clip at KAP Macs (I think I threw it away accidentally). And when I'm not losing things, I leave a million things behind everywhere. I left my small coin tin in LT2 after Mr Whitby's lecture. I left my phone on the canteen table unattended while I went to the toilet. I left a pen in Jericho and only discovered I left it there 2 days later. I left my bottle in corps (AGAIN). And when I'm not leaving things behind, I drop a million things on the floor. My phone fell onto the ground twice this week cos it just slipped out of my hand while I was walking. Dropped my pencil first, then eraser next, during Geography lecture. Dropped my Geography folder behind the photocopier in the library. Dropped my bag in corps. Dropped my bottle on the bus.

WHAT A TERRIBLY KLUTZY WEEK.

I lost my EZ-Link card on Monday, but I didn't had time at all to call the TransitLink company till Thursday. I called the bus company the day before to see if they had it, but they didn't. And everywhere I go, I have to make sure I have 5 cent coins to settle my transport from one place to another. I just realised how dependent I was on my EZ-Link card, and how I took for granted my bus concession pass which allows me to have unlimited bus rides to wherever I want every month. I probably spent like $10 worth of coins on transport alone this week! Thanks to all the people whom have provided 5 cent coins for me, and thanks to all the strangers at the bus stops who gave me their loose change, and thanks to the drinks stall uncle who helped me change 40 cents into eight 5 cent coins. Anyway I finally squeezed out time to go all the way down to Hougang after school today just to make a new card.

I'M TIRED.

I've got horrible eyebags. Had to take a goofy passport-size photo just for the new EZ-Link card, and the lady took pictures of me FOUR TIMES. Each time it was a failure, cos my eyes look sleepy or I was blinking or whatever. And the best picture of the lot still had me looking like a vegetable with super messy hair and sleepy eyes.

WHEELS OUT OF CHEESE.

Met the Green Link members involved in the pubstunt for Earth Week on Thursday. They were great! Wang Mo and Liyong will make excellent partners! Haha! And Pei Ling came shortly after cos we needed to think up of something to submit for Waste to Wow competition. All we had were an old typewriter, several toners, rollers, cartridges and canisters from a printer, and some other funky machine bits. The two of us basically dissected the entire printer, cut out all the wires, broke open the typewriter, unscrewed all the screws... For the life of us, we couldn't think of what to make out of the rubbish. We tried to make a platform that can roll, but the rollers couldn't roll properly. Then we thought of plucking out wheels from the school cleaner's trolley! Blah after 2 hours of aimless work, we gave up.

SMOOTHENING THE CRABBY CRAPS.

Back-up sang with Amelia Soh today. Joel Lee led worship and sang Evermore, this time it's the Hillsong's Evermore. Amelia couldn't reach the high notes. My voice sounded as if I swallowed a rat. So the two of us just kept looking at each other and shrugging. Then we had something like a gameshow that gave a summary of all the evangelism messages over the past 2 months. I was worried that my cell group will get ZERO, but we got one point in the end! The rest of the cell groups were like 10 and above? Oh wells. And Rachel Tan went nuts. Berries. Bolts. Whatever.

LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND.

Yesh it's 7am now, on a school day. I'm not planning to go school later. Having a really bad headache and it's throbbing me hard. Oh wait a second... I HAVE to go school later. Need to meet Pei Ling in school at 6pm later to complete our Waste to Wow entry. Blah I wish I didn't have to meet her, or else I'll be happily at home sleeping.

Yesterday was me giving a short assembly talk at Catholic High School. I spoke about elephants again, but this time it included a small section on my previous nature guiding experiences in CHS. Haha the comments I got were that the front part was good, but the elephant hospital details were too long. Hee hee! I don't really care so much about whatever that I spoke, cos standing in front of the entire secondary school's students is a nerve-wrecking thing and I don't even know how I managed to squeeze my words out. Anyway, I brought my mum along for the talk, cos she wasn't convinced that "her son could speak eloquently". SO MUCH FOR PARENTAL SUPPORT RIGHT??? But okay now she's more convinced. The talk was good, I guess... Tiny glitches like the sound system not working and whatever, but my speech was okay and Jia Qiang's speech was good too, so it was a pretty decent experience.

Also yesterday in school was council speech day. There were no lessons, just council-wannabe candidates making speeches on stage and trying to convince us to vote for them. I think it's dumb. Most of the candidates just talked about why they want to serve and what made them want to join council and their passion and their desire to serve and commit and contribute to the school and to bridge whatever gap and to wherever and to whoever and to whatever else you can think of. Me and Janvin just sat there and listen to them drone on and on about all these stuff.

Then again, if I were a council elect, I'll probably say the same things. HAHA. Okay maybe not. I mean, the aim for the speech day is for you to stand out right? It's not the contents of your speech, cos everyone's probably going to say the same thing. It's how you present it... So I guess I was pretty impressed by this IP guy who did his speech in 4 different languages. And there was this girl who ran around on stage and said she was "running for council". And maybe a few others who did things out of the box and attracted my attention more than those who just spoke about their passion.

Next time anyone says "passion" to me, I assume you're meaning sex.

And then I thought about the ironic fact: I was listening to the council candidates speaking about themselves and trying to get their points across to us. An hour later I was speaking and CHS is listening to me about myself and me trying to get my points acoss to them. YESH it's only then that I realised it's a difficult thing to do. Maybe I shall be less critical about them.


Okie I'm going to KAP to study, then I'll go down to school later at 6pm. Pei Ling had better not abandon me again.

It's an extremely bad day today. I lack sleep, I'm in no mood for crap, I'm in no mood for anything. Dragged my stupid tired self everywhere in between my lessons. I tried to be late for school today by doing everything extremely slowly; I even walked around the house in circles, pretending as if I'm a very busy man. Bahh I still reached school on time even though I left house at 7.15am. I tried doing my Maths remedial worksheets and had a nervous breakdown. The rest of the lessons were stupid.

There was a bee swarm hanging on the tree beside the canteen today. Kai Jie seemed quite incredulous when I told him that it was a bee swarm, not a bee hive. Yesh there's a difference in them, cos a bee hive is a solid structure which the bees nest and produce honey in, while a bee swarm is just a huge clump of bees clustering on a branch or anywhere. When an old queen bee is chased out by the new and younger queen bee, it often brings along more than half of the colony of bees away from the hive in search for a new home. The new queen bee will then start a colony in the original hive, thus "expanding" the population. A bee swarm will occur when the old queen stops on a branch or anywhere, and her followers will all cluster around her in a tight swarm. And this was what happened this afternoon: the bees were probably searching for a new place to stay in.

It was both fascinating and disgusting to me. Fascinating because I'm always intrigued at how nature seeks to achieve balance with itself, and the bee swarm was a structural achievement that required all the bees to cluster tightly in order to form such a huge mass. Disgusting because I can't stand the sight of small little black dots forming into a swarm larger than a watermelon, and the thought of 30 thousand bees crawling over each other. I HATE REPEATED PATTERNS. THEY CREEP ME OUT. The bee swarm cleared itself away after an hour or so. They just dispersed and flew away, probably cos the scouters have found a new residential area. (Some idiot said to call the SPCA. Blooiee.)

Went down to HSBC Building at Collyer Quay for my HSBC/NYAA Youth Environmental Award interview after school. They told us it's a short 10 minutes interview, but almost all the candidates clocked 25~30 minutes each. My scheduled timeslot was 3.40-3.50pm, but I waited till 5.20pm before my turn came! The interviewers talked more to me than they asked me questions, and I realised the onus was on me to talk on my own initiative. Anyway, saw Zhen Rong there too, and met a few new friends...

Was late for Hai Hao's tuition by 15 minutes. But it was cool for him, cos he grasped fractions and change of units in a space of half an hour. I told him to show off to Sophia tomorrow, and he said "show off is bad". EEYER what a stubborn kid. Then had a meeting with Ben to decide what we're going to do as a collaboration. I came up with hundreds of ideas but most of them were lame and stupid. In the end we did settle for something, but I'm not going to announce it here yet.

AND GUESS WHAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING THAT HAPPENED TODAY? I lost my EZ-Link card on the bus. Was travelling from NJ to Newton MRT, fell asleep and I think the card just fell out of my hands or something. I so so SO need a wallet. Didn't even realise it was missing until I needed to get behind the gate gantries at the MRT station. I'm going to harbour some form of hope and call the bus company tomorrow to check if it's in the Lost & Found first, before I declare my card dead and report it lost to TransitLink.

Actually it's not the first time that it's lost. I lost it in school once, but I found it back eventually. Lost it thrice at home, cos it was stuck in between sheets of paper. I seriously hope I would stop misplacing all my belongings and not lose my keys or my phone or leave stuff lying around and forgetting to take them back after that. UGH UGH UGH.

Maybe I should just spend $21 to go get a replacement and have a nicer photo of myself on that card.

Suddenly I've got people commenting on my blog writing style and techniques. Chiew Yee said my blog is all about the the description of the activities that I do each week; then Sarah commented that my blog gives people a "blow-by-blow account of almost everything"; and my dear "girlfriend" Yurong said she tried to imitate my blogging style and gave up subsequently, but my blog entries are among her favourites. AWW so sweet!! HEE HEE!!

Oh well seriously. I don't think I exhibit any distinctive writing patterns in my blogging, other than being overly meticulous in my story-telling. I SOUND NAGGY. "Everybody's blogging style different? Can you blog in a way that's totally out of character?" (from Yurong's blog). What can I do to blog out of character? Hmm. Maybe I should try that one day, and turn my blog into one that employs a different style each time I post something.

Unpredictability. Instability.

But for the time being, I shall continue with my daily events "nagging": This morning I had breakfast at J8 McDonald's with Tammy and Shihui. I got a Happy Meal toy and it's name is Mepples! Whatever that was... Anyway Tammy was late, so me and Shihui pretended that the toy was Tammy and talked to it stupidly. Then went for Easter service after that, had lunch with church people at Kopitiam, then went down to Jericho with whoever that's left of those that didn't go home. Played table tennis for almost the whole afternoon, while listening to Adriel's classic oldies.

Uh huh. I tried my best to not make that account sound blow-by-blow. Did it work did it work??? If I wanted to I'll have talked about how I keep pressing Mepples' head everytime Tammy made some underwear remark. Or how Shihui and me went nuts over the party hats and the baby chair and little boys and little girls. Or how Sarah giggles nonstop. Or how Shermin and Yurong are fighting over me. Or how Sarah keeps squeezing in all the corner balls in table tennis. Or how good me and Yurong are as a doubles pair. Or how whatever and wherever and whoever. SO DID IT WORK???

Blooiee. I sound psychotic.

I just managed to receive a huge file (about 45MB) from Yurong through MSN. For once my internet connection didn't break down halfway and the transfer was quite fast. In it were pictures from church barbeque to Good Friday service to captain's ball to whatever else. Right after I told Cherrie that I don't like pictures because it captures only a moment in time and shows an inaccurate indication of actual life. How paradoxical it is then, when I actually need those pictures that Yurong sent.

So here you go, here are some highlights shown through an "inaccurate indication of actual life" by capturing "a moment in time".


Joel Tan about to eat a marshmallow! He's my protégé, cos he's going to take over Fellowship Committee!!


My fingers are in there somewhere...


Li Rong, Shi Min and Clarissa!


The artwork that came from 7 hours of cutting and pasting...


And the artists: Tammy, me and Shihui


BIMBOTIC. That's us. Uh huh.


Me!


Yurong; supposed "girlfriend"...


Shermin; supposed new "girlfriend"...

Hmm, in one way or another I'm glad to have reached the end of this week. It's been a busy one. Too busy, I must say, cos I've been involved in so many stuff and so many activities that I'm neglecting sleep. My bedtime for this week is 3am in the morning, then waking up at 6am for school. The only time when I've slept for more than 3 hours was on Wednesday night, and I didn't even get to bed early. I slept at 3am and woke up at 8am instead, so I was almost an hour late for school on Thursday.

I have a sleepy look on my face. Some people told me sheepish, and most people say it's zombie-ish. My thoughts are just flowing randomly now.

Went down to Far East Flora on Wednesday after school with Mr Adrian Loh and Hui Min. Needed to get a tree for Earth Week for our traditional tree-planting ceremony, so Mr Loh drove us down. We got a hydrangea! There were only 3 pots of hydrangea left, so we chose the best looking out of the three and sent it back to NJ. I got a small little pot and dish for myself too, cos I wanted to transplant my rosemary.

I know nuts about reproduction in plants and animals. Tuition with Hai Hao is getting more and more tough for me, cos I didn't take Biology ever in my entire life, so I have to constantly research about the ovary and sperm and fertilisation and whatever, just to answer Hai Hao's weird questions. And now it's anther and filament and whatever! I mean, I know SPECIES of flowers, but I don't know REPRODUCTION in flowers.

Me and Siew Peng had a lively discussion during double GP. I insisted that chickens are borned in eggs which are then fertilised externally, but Siew started questioning the process of fertilisation and whether there is any use for the male chicken! Then we started arguing about whether trees are asexual or bisexual, then Liyana told us that some trees like papaya tree had male trees and female trees! We even got Ms Florence Yap to check out the definition of fertilisation.

' "Playing God." How far does this describe the endeavours of scientists and doctors today?' Ms Yap said that we do not need to consider science versus religion for this GP essay topic, but I felt that it was impossible to not discuss religion in the topic as it is a contravention against the roles of God, so it is important to specify the role of scientists and doctorr, especially in their attempts to "play God".

Got back all my Common Test results. GP: B4. Maths: O8. Geography: D. Literature: D. Far from what I would want really, but apparently D for Literature was considered a good grade to most already. Blah. I spent the whole term studying Maths and at most 2 weeks studying Lit, and Lit turned out to be one of my better subjects. Such irony.

Did up a giant cross and message for Good Friday service with Shi Hui and Tammy. On Thursday after lessons, I met Shi Hui in school, then we went to J8 to get paper and tape, then went back to corps to start work. The original message was supposed to be "The man who hung here is the BONAFIDE, CERTIFIED, UNDEFEATED, UNDISPUTED truth & the light, who died out of love for the WORLD, presenting SALVATION for YOURS TRULY." But there were space constraints, so we excluded the long list of BONAFIDE...UNDISPUTED adjectives.

Anyway, the final result was awesome! The three of us had our own bimbo party, cutting paper and pasting it onto the wall. Started work at 6pm, and finished at 1am! By 10pm all of us were drunk. Matthew and Daniel came shortly after midnight to buy us supper, and by the time I reached home in the middle of the night, my mum asked me sleepily whether it was time for school.

Ben and Lurong put together a short video about the archeological and biblical documentation of Jesus' death. I got my name on the credits for "rushing back home and contributing the Father's Love Letter after tuition", cos they used it towards the ending. HEE HEE!

And Good Friday service! Imagine my shock when I saw so many people bringing friends. Okay maybe it wasn't that many, but still, there were a lot of new faces. And during our final worship practice in the afternoon, I couldn't even sing decently at all, much less reach the high notes. Then after dinner with Ben Ng, Adriel and Sarah, my voice came back much stronger during the full-dress rehearsal. Duck noodles, ginseng herbal tea and Strepsils Extra Strong helped. And we brought together a different meaning to "gaining fat"

Well it was good. The many hours of practice paid off, Strepsils did its job, and I could sing high when I needed to. After the worship sessions, I got everyone to stick a star with their names on the big cross that we pasted the night before. And gave out the Love Letter! Everything was quite well-organised, and I think my fellowship committee simply is amazing!

Guess what? Clarissa brought her friends Li Rong and Shi Min. Incidentally, I sent them invites to this service via post. And apparently Shi Min still remembers playing board games with me, even though I've forgotten her name. Shermin and Yurong and me are embroidered in a love triangle. And us three bimbos (Shi Hui, Tam and me) used the leftover star stickers, wrote BIMBO and pasted it on our oh-so-sexy chest!

I can't resist this pun: the church is a place where both me and my items get lost and found. Last Saturday after worship practice, I left behind a CD and stickers meant for SOMEONE'S birthday. Yesterday, Joel passed it back to me, after keeping it with him for almost a week. And on Thursday night, I left my bottle in the auditorium ALL BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE TO TAMMY. Last night, I found it at the reception counter. As for me, I am totally lost in God's embrace and foound in his love.

I think the security guard uncle is super duper nice.

OH OH OH. I can't believe I forgot to mention this: I got Band 1 for Project Work! HOORAY. My whole class got either 1 or 2 which is really a good thing, and I really couldn't believe it when Ms Vignesh said "Guan You, one...". But I think it's kinda dumb, cos we did one whole year of research and thrashing out all the interviews and documentations and oral presentation, and our results were released to us in less than 5 minutes. BATHOS.

AND OH OH OH. I must mention this: My application for the HSBC/NYAA Youth Environmental Award got through! They're asking me down for an interview on Monday. HOORAY.

There you go. My interestingly long week for you.

Oh goodness look at the time now. 3.39am. I'm either a bit too early for school, or I'm stupidly delaying my sleep. Loads of work to do. Well okie but at least I'm still managing reasonably so far. Right now I'm finalising all the plans that we're intending to carry out for Earth Week, which is going to be next week. Later on I will need to update the song sheets for Good Friday, as well as to have a overview plan of what decoration to include for Good Friday service. Then there's still Maths assignment which I don't really know what's going on. ME NEED ATIQAH TO HELP ME WITH ME MATHS!! Need to revise on my Literature texts, need to finalise what I'm going to say for the Catholic High Talk next week, need to find volunteers for various events, need to start fulfilling my role as Assistant Recruiting Sergeant... And there's probably a million other things that needs to be done!!

What the hell have I got myself into? I'm committing to too many things without even sure whether my time will allow me to do all of those. I foresee my next 2 weeks to be one crazy hectic period of my life. Breakdown? Possibly, but most likely from lack of sleep. Already I'm chalking up a huge sleep debt even before the real stuff comes in. I SHALL NOT WASTE TIME IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. I SHALL RELY ON GOD'S STRENGTH.

I'm starting to get the jitters again. Oh shoots not at a time like this. Noooo.

Got into major trouble with Mrs Nair yesterday morning at school. Okie actually it's not really a very major thing to me, but Mrs Nair sort of blew things out of proportion and made it sound as though I've committed a cardinal sin. Nah I shall not bother to explain it, cos it'll take too long and too complex. But anyway, bottom line was that I had to go see Ms Marianne Tan for some accusations that I made but didn't mean it, and for getting Mrs Nair into trouble in the first place, before she got me into trouble. There I told you, it was complex.

I was in one of my grumpy moods in the morning, although it disappeared by noon-time. Atiqah skipped Economics tutorial cos she's going to drop the subject, and "sort of" helped me with my Maths tutorials. I'm more inclined to think that it's my own brilliance that accounted for my productivity in that hour-long free period? Haha but this coming from a guy who flunked his Maths. Blee. Okie so Atiqah did help me quite a bit, but she still can't sketch a circle properly! Hee hee!

I meant for myself to rush down to City Hall immediately after school cos I'm meeting Dora to collect envelopes from her (more about the envelopes later). But stupid me fell asleep on the bus there as I only slept for 2 hours the night before, and I ended up at the exact same bus-stop where me and Atiqah ended up when we took bus 174 last year! Haha there was this occasion when we wanted to go town, but met this old man on the bus and he dragged us past Chinatown with him. So I had to take the bus back, saw Ken and Peiling, walked a long way, missed the meeting with Dora cos she had to work, and decided to go straight to town next to meet Eleanor to pass her her CDs. I got Joel to help me collect the envelopes instead.

Then I rushed down to corps to prepare the song sheets cos I'm leading worship for youth cell, then needed to prepare the pamphlets for the Good Friday service also (hence the envelopes). And gosh the practice was quite bad, cos the songs I chose were difficult and we had a hard time making it sound right. And my bad throat was hampering me from reaching all my high notes.

The actual worship came at 8.07pm. I was feeling so stupidly nervous and clammy, then Shi Hui messaged me while Matthew was doing all the introductions. Haha she was somewhere in the seats below the stage and apparently my red shirt was too outstanding (again). Oh well the worship was good, but I couldn't get the right key for the song All Day. So I was languishing around, completely lost, couldn't get the right pitch at all. But eventually I did, and the rest was just awesome.

I overstrained my voice over all the high notes. After worship I couldn't talk without going into a high pitch.

And for today, I went for the Green Audits Awards prize ceremony at Singapore Polytechnic! Met Hong Yi at Dover MRT at 8.45am, then we realised that the auditorium where the ceremony is going to be held is just straight from the MRT station. So we wandered around for half an hour before going into the auditorium. Met loads of SEC/GVN people!! Hahaha! Ms Stella Koh was with us, while Mr Mark Lo (my school's vice-principal) was to go on stage to receive the prize. Oh well the ceremony was quite dull, other than Chan Soo Sen's speech and Marsiling Secondary's presentation. There were 132 schools getting the various awards, so me and Hong Yi just ended up clapping for all 132 schools. Okie we clapped slightly louder when it was Mr Lo's turn.

Blooiee but it wasn't that dull either. The refreshments were great! There's nonya kuehs, including my beloved kueh lapis!! And I realised that it was quite a good place to practice my networking skills, but I didn't do so. Anyway, left the place at around 12 noon, headed down to City Hall MRT to meet Kai Jie and Rhoda!

We're meeting to do our Geography Mediterranean biome project at the National Library, while I'm meeting Kai Jie earlier for lunch. And when Rhoda told us that she was going to be late, we walked around, ate, window-shopped. And I went to see Dora at Starbucks! Haaha! Eventually Rhoda arrived, but not without grumbling that she couldn't locate the bus-stop and goodness gracious whatever.

WE WERE PRODUCTIVE. So much more productive than the last time we did the rivers project together. Within 15 minutes Rhoda and me found 4 books worthy of attention, and Kai Jie found this huge book all about Mediterranean climate. All of us couldn't even spell Mediterranean in the first place! After that we went to Raffles City foodcourt to analyse our data, distributed the work and went shopping after that! I wanted a green shirt, but we keep getting distracted by other gift shops. Eventually we gave up on my green shirt cos it's either too expensive or not nice.

I got down back to corps again after that! It was a day full of travelling. I had a worship practice for Good Friday's youth service, where me and Ben are leading the first worship session. And both of us being guys, we chose all the songs with super high notes that only the guys are meant to achieve and force the girls to sing in some horrid accompaniment key. But that also means I have to reach those high notes, which us guys have trouble reaching already!

Do remember that my voice is still overstrained from last night's worship, where I chose high songs too. We started at 6pm, and we only ended practice at 11pm. Songs were too high, trying to figure out the transitions, determine which way of singing is better, figuring out wrong chords, fatigue and all. It was a good practice, in the sense that we managed to get the songs to sound good, but at the expense of everyone's fatigue. And my voice is totally gone now. It's been reduced to a raspy croak...

I'm so bloody stupidly tired now. Need. Sleep.

I've been rather tense these few days. There's nothing to do with nothing. I'm just feeling extremely volatile and there's a great explosion ready to take place in my mind. In fact I realised that I'm actually wishing for someone to irritate me. I "sort of" want to get all argumentative and picking fights and shouting and blowing up at people. But sadly no one was kind enough to irritate me. BLEE.

Anyway, it was dialogue session with our Principal, Mrs V Cheng. I got to sit in the conference room for the second time of my NJ education. The first was with Ginny at some racial harmony focus group... I ended up sitting right in front of the P, and I forgot all about my black-painted-pinkie-nail on my right hand. Haha yesh Dora helped me paint my pinkie nail black, and the P noticed it right away. So for the entire dialogue session she kept eyeing my nail cos I think it was quite conspicuous, and she even asked if I went clubbing or to some nail-painting course during Enrichment Week. And now the Arts Faculty owe the school a set of tables and chairs. BLEE.

My tense mood continued for today. Morning had to be in school early for some MOE Project Work survey, but me and Jin Jen were both late but we still did the survey. After PE we celebrated Samuel's and Kai Jie's birthdays, and for Geography I made a meteorological prediction that it's going to rain in the late afternoons. Ms Ting was trying to get us to be "pseudo-weathermen", and true to my predictions, it started pouring really heavily after school ended. Kai Jie and Rhoda both messaged me at around the same time to congratulate me about my prediction. Haha no wonder the three of us are in the same permanent Geography group. BLEE.

I don't think I really understand complex numbers. It's... complex. I had a talk with my Maths tutor about my horrible Maths grades, and honestly, I did put in effort for my Maths. And Ms Sim was cool with it too, except that I'll have to go for extra lessons. Not that I mind, really...

I'm going to be rather busy for the next week. Proposals, projects, assignments, research, homework, revision. And I need to get my throat in shape for Good Friday AND TOMORROW! I'm going to put in a lot of travelling tomorrow. Gotta meet Dora after school, then meet Eleanor, then travel back to Corps for worship practice. And on Saturday I'm going for the Green Audits prize presentation! Really can't wait, after all the hard work in doing the Audit. WHEE!

Got back my Maths paper today. I flunked it quite badly... Got a 38 over 100 only. Don't ask me what happened, cos I don't know either. And it's quite tragic cos I think it's the first time that I really put in effort for a major Maths exam. Bloop.

It could have been worse. We got back our Teddy Hughes paper today too. But I stupidly overstayed for 20 minutes in the library during my break and missed the Literature tutorial. I've got no idea how much I got, cos I don't know who has my paper and nobody seemed to know what's my result either.

I pulled my right calf muscle during PE. Jaslyn told me to pull the left calf too to make it even.

My horrible relationship with Ms Ting continues. I answered "climate" to one of her questions and got a stop-giving-me-rubbish lecture from her.

Am supposed to lead worship this Friday, but I've got a bad throat. How am I supposed to reach the high notes?? Why don't Hillsongs lower their key and make things easier for worship leaders worldwide?

And guess what? I lost the pink highlighter that Shannon gave me. It just vanished into thin air.

I guess it's just not my day today. I'm stupidly depressed and feeling idiotic and moronic. But I'm not that upset, and neither am I in a very bad mood. I'm just... Tired? Weary? I admit I haven't been myself lately, although I think I'm still okay enough.

Why, this is not Guan You! Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Okie okie. There are good things that happened this week. I learnt how to play Settlers of Catan yesterday! It's kinda repetitive after a while and there's a lot of things going on at the same time at each turn. But it has quite a good interactive gameplay. I realised that NJ's library is quite funky, except for the stern librarian. I enjoyed company with my prudey-darling. I got a new stamping thingy too. Nutseed looks slimmer. And loads of other little good things that I won't bother to elaborate.

I shall try changing "All Day" to a more manageable key to sing in now.

Today was kinda boring. Had to go down to Pasir Ris Park in the morning for nature guiding. Grant's giving us a refresher course as we have to guide people from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped next week. I won't be guiding though, but I'm just there this morning to help with any familiarisation for the juniors. Well okie Wang Mo and Karen were there, but they sort of backed out last minute. So only Connie came along with us, and boy she was quite a fast learner!

Grant's becoming more and more like King Lear. Stubborn and soo imperative. But definitely wiser and more savvy than Leary.

Anyway, it's April Fool's Day today. Nobody tried to pull some major prank on me, except Wang Mo who pretended that she loved me. Then Su Kai and me were trying to trick David into believing that "someone had the cooties for him", but he was so laggy on MSN that I sort of just gave up.

Went down for worship practice just now. Me and Ben are going to lead one session of praise on Good Friday, and it sounds pretty awesome. But I've got a super weak throat now! UGH. I have no problems reaching the notes, but I sound so flat and monotonous and too fluid.

Gotta start on my proposals and whatever work there are tomorrow. I'm a social bimbo butterfly!

Anyway, I'm looking for anyone who wants to play "Let's Talk Rubbish" with me! Haha the game's simple. It's a MSN conversing game that requires you to talk about the most rubbishy and random things! The rules are: 1) Each time you cannot say more than one word, 2) You must end each word with an exclaimation mark. WHO WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME??